Lex Fridman
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How to create and sell NFTs
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The benefits and drawbacks of NFTs
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In the world of political truth, as we know it, the fundamental thing broken about the government is that we can't easily and peacefully start new opt-in governments and startup governments.
Basically, you can start a new company, you can start a new community, and you can even start a new currency, but you're not really able to create new countries.
There's obviously value to tradition and there's also tension between tradition and Innovation.
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Instead of making appeals to people to look past gender or race, or to not cancel and discriminate online, we make it impossible to do that by taking away that information entirely with realistic avatars and fully functional pseudonyms.
People are adopting search-resistant identities. This means treating their real names like social security numbers, gradually doing less with them online, only using them in official contexts
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A pseudonymous economy defends you against disruptions to your social networks.
Just as your bank account is your stored wealth, your real name is your stored reputation. Pseudonymity insures against unjustified debit to that reputation.
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And alternatives enable reform.
When a system is calcified enough, you simply can't take it head-on. Instead, you get to the exit, you build a better alternative in a new domain, and you set a better example — thereby reforming the recalcitrant by taking their customers.
Today we build digital currencies, create virtual realities, populate encrypted communities, and transform physical mobility. There is always an exit.
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A network state is a social network with:
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